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This headline is horribly misleading. The Ninth Circuit said that web scraping is not a violation of the CFAA, but that other causes of action, such as trespass to chattels, breach of contract, misappropriation, may still apply. Just super irresponsible writing.

Still, a very good day for scraping.



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